Duo Chronicles

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Well, we made it.  52 weeks later, we've put up a new video every single Tuesday.  Every week, a new arrangement, a new recording, a new video, and most of the time, a new composition altogether...

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In the bebop era, it was a common practice to take a popular song and write a new melody over the familiar chord changes.  Charlie Parker wrote many of his tunes this way, including Donna Lee (the changes are from Indiana), Ornithology (on How High the...

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Quadrivium -- from Latin, meaning "a crossroads.  A place where four roads meet"

This composition is a modern choral of sorts, with four clarinet parts playing what might be more traditional sung in four part harmony, or played on an organ.  My inspira...

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For the past couple of weeks, I've been at Portland Center Stage (http://www.pcs.org/) as part of the orchestra for a production of the "25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (http://www.pcs.org/spellingbee/)."  The show is a musical comedy, following...

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For this week's composition, Ice-Berg, I thought the clarinet would be a good choice. Luckily, John can play pretty much all of the instruments in the woodwind family. That is versatility for you...